Inflammation and metabolic problems caused by long periods of inactivity are undoubtedly also to blame.
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Drinking ice-cold water may also help to boost your overall metabolic rate as well.
Sitting too much can cause back and neck pain and a slowed metabolic rate.
These may include having a low metabolic rate in ecosystems where energy is in short supply.
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Lauren Bon created and leads the Metabolic Studio, a practice of art and philanthropy.
"Possible factors might be nutritional factors other than folate, metabolic factors, genetic factors, " she said.
But these chemicals are a by-product of the metabolic activity that powers the body.
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Fermenting corn with Saccharomyces Cereviciae in the absence of oxygen produces an end metabolic product of ethanol.
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Now, diagnosing the metabolic syndrome has probably filtered all the way down to your local general internist.
Artificial fat elicits similar biological responses as real fat, including increased salivation, hormonal reactions, and metabolic changes.
Not only does forward head posture cause nerve pain, Collie says it can also create metabolic problems.
The loss in weight and body mass is driven by a metabolic disease manifested by increased energy consumption.
It is no longer a luxury or a vice but a metabolic necessity, like water on the plains.
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The treatment "draws out metabolic waste and impurities from the body that lets water flow through better, " Tracey says.
PPARs have been known to exist for 14 years, but their suspected role in metabolic syndrome emerged only gradually.
Drinking large amounts of soda can increase your risk of developing metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, and dental caries.
Granted, these studies were conducted using rats, and we have to acknowledge the metabolic differences of our rodent counterparts.
Prevalence of the pre-diabetic condition referred to as the metabolic syndrome has also increased in the past two decades.
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Many of these subjects were already health-impaired, suffering from asthma, metabolic syndrome, and aging (up to 75 years old).
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The link to obesity was made when scientists investigated "metabolic inflammation", a chronic, low-level condition often seen in obesity-related diseases.
Forty-seven million Americans have metabolic syndrome, which means they have at least three risk factors for heart disease and diabetes.
An editorial in JAMA rightly points out that BMI is inadequate as a sole predictor of metabolic risk.
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Other foods have different ways of increasing the rate at which we burn calories (otherwise known as the metabolic rate).
We also know that smoking is a thermogenic agent, meaning that nicotine raises the rate of energy expenditure, metabolic rate.
They suggest a metabolic "glitch" may be at the root of fibroid development, and could help understanding of the condition.
Dr. Scott Shikora, president of the American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, said he hasn't been impressed with the results.
This could help explain the fact that the form of diabetes that follows metabolic syndrome can involve damage to pancreatic cells.
Some creatures move faster than others, some see farther, and some burn sugar at a higher metabolic rate than their rivals.
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The American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery says that about 200, 000 people in the U.S. have weight loss surgery each year.
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